I guess my primary reason is so I can leave them all installed on separate drives and just switch when I want to look at something. I always have a test machine anyway for testing drives and such plus My living room is already full with 6 permanent machines and commonly have 2-5 others I am working on. Nonetheless, I have considered the scenario you suggest as a learning experience. Way too many projects :) On 10/13/06, Carl Parrish wrote: > > Dazed_75 wrote: > > Interesting. That made me go start that machine up and it seems to be > behaving better this evening. I checked a few times while doing some > reading and always found 2 beagle processes once any showed up. I also > ran Yast/Software Management and did a search on beagle. That shows 6 > of 8 packahes installed (not quite the same list those gents mentioned). > > > > Not sure if I will remove them as that was really just meant to be a > brief look at Suse. I am keeping my eye open for a [free] box with lots > of drive bays and a decent MB/CPU/Memory with the intent to put in a > bunch of like drives and load different OS's on each just for checkout > purposes. No multi-booting to maintain, just move the IDE and power > cables to the drive having thr OS I want to check something on. Sounds > silly, but again this is just a hobby. > > > > Why not just use Virtual Hosts? Vmware or Xen will enable you to do that > without the hardware. I tend to have a lot of spare computers in my > network so just started using FreeNX for that. I can install a test > distro on a spare computer, then use it from my computer with nx. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss